New perspectives on how envirotech can help us engage with the
surrounding world in ways that are more sustainable for
humanity-and the planet. Today's scientists, policymakers, and
citizens are all confronted by numerous dilemmas at the nexus of
technology and the environment. Every day seems to bring new
worries about the dangers posed by carcinogens, "superbugs," energy
crises, invasive species, genetically modified organisms,
groundwater contamination, failing infrastructure, and other
troubling issues. In Technology and the Environment in History,
Sara B. Pritchard and Carl A. Zimring adopt an analytical approach
to explore current research at the intersection of environmental
history and the history of technology-an emerging field known as
envirotech. Technology and the Environment in History They discuss
the important topics, historical processes, and scholarly concerns
that have emerged from recent work in thinking about envirotech.
Each chapter focuses on a different urgent topic: * Food and Food
Systems: How humans have manipulated organisms and ecosystems to
produce nutrients for societies throughout history. *
Industrialization: How environmental processes have constrained
industrialization and required shifts in the relationships between
human and nonhuman nature. * Discards: What we can learn from the
multifaceted forms, complex histories, and unexpected possibilities
of waste. * Disasters: How disaster, which the authors argue is
common in the industrialized world, exposes the fallacy of tidy
divisions among nature, technology, and society. * Body: How bodies
reveal the porous boundaries among technology, the environment, and
the human. * Sensescapes: How environmental and technological
change have reshaped humans' (and potentially nonhumans') sensory
experiences over time. Using five concepts to understand the
historical relationships between technology and the
environment-porosity, systems, hybridity, biopolitics, and
environmental justice-Pritchard and Zimring propose a chronology of
key processes, moments, and periodization in the history of
technology and the environment. Ultimately, they assert,
envirotechnical perspectives help us engage with the surrounding
world in ways that are, we hope, more sustainable and just for both
humanity and the planet. Aimed at students and scholars new to
environmental history, the history of technology, and their nexus,
this impressive synthesis looks outward and forward-identifying
promising areas in more formative stages of intellectual
development and current synergies with related areas that have
emerged in the past few years, including environmental
anthropology, discard studies, and posthumanism.
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